Non-headline of the day, from the Globe: Shifting norms led to gay marriage ruling. I really like Robert Kuttner’s magazine, but sometimes his editorials don’t really provide much content.
Meanwhile, in other local debauchery news, the legalization of Sunday liquor sales has taken me by surprise, particularly after the measure seemed doomed in the House. What’s […]
Via Boston Common, I came across a local blog shilling for Bush-Cheney ‘04:
With ultra-liberal extremist groups like MoveOn.org expect to raise an unprecedented $420 million from “Limousine Liberals”. They’ll spend it on harsh negative ads and Get-Out-The-Vote efforts in key swing states.
The lying liberal media won’t tell you this: The Bush campaign is now badly […]
Checking the Marxists for Keynes mail bag: in reply to my post on improving Boston’s navigability for tourists, Dave writes:
re: improving Boston for tourists (and residents)…one word. Signage. Either I’m blind to it because I know where I’m going or it’s just not there…but it seems to me that Boston is horrible in terms of […]
Around Oscar time, I wrote a somewhat rhetorical question: “how is it that Moore - the man who made his career claiming that the liberals are too often humorless and demonstrating through his filmmaking that humor can be the left’s best weapon - came to launch such a predictable and humorless screed at the Academy […]
So the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Of course, it’s too early to tell what, exactly, the outcome will be. I have a feeling that the anti-gay-marriage forces will be put on the defensive; after all, a constitutional amendment is harder to pass than regular legislation. At […]
Marxists for Keynes was featured (sort of) on last night’s Greater Boston. (It seems that host Emily Rooney was ego-surfing in Google and this website was on the first page of returns). Not the most flattering mention, but any publicity is good publicity, right?
A couple of stories on the local/city page got my attention this morning. First, the MBTA is planning on banning electric and amplified busking on the T, complaining that the volume drowns out the public announcements. Are they kidding? I’ve yet to find a single T station where you can clearly hear and understand the […]
Dan Kennedy thinks that John Kerry has gotten a raw deal from the media coverage, and that his Iraq vote was possibly, likely even, a principled vote rather than a pandering.
Vennochi’s view of Kerry’s pro-Bush vote last fall is entirely cynical, which I guess makes sense if you believe that (1) Kerry thought he already […]
Marxists for Keynes is back from its brief hiatus. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with the news cycle this week (in particular trying to sort out John Kerry’s further implosion… the Jay Leno show was a jump the shark moment if ever I saw one). So I’ll just take a moment to finally weigh in […]
One of the big stories of the week has been a “must-read” speech by Zbigniew Brzezinski critiquing the Bush administration’s foriegn policy in the Middle East and blasting unilateralism in general. It really is a marvelous speech, clearly and eloquently laying out one by one its faults. One part I especially liked:
Since the tragedy of […]
The City Council election results have surprised everyone by not being surprising at all. We all expected the infusion of challenger blood and campaign cash to alter the race, as it did the preliminary election. But the incumbents (Flaherty, Arroyo, Hennigan and Murphy) are still councilors. The Herald has an analysis piece reading the results […]
As if to answer my calls for suggestions for improving the tourism-friendliness of Boston, a new op-ed in Commonwealth magazine takes the upcoming Democratic convention as an occasion for proposing a few visitor amenities, including the following:
Establish an orderly system of taxi and private-car arrival at [Logan Airport] terminals to eliminate chaos at curbside baggage […]
In the face of gloomy assessments of Boston’s future after Bank of America’s buyout of Fleet (and Manulife’s buyout of John Hancock recently), David Warsh sees a familiar economic cycle, using the history of Boston’s refrigeration-ice industry as an anecdote:
By 1833, Tudor was shipping ice halfway around the world Â- 180 tons to Calcutta. By […]
City Council rundown: The city election is tomorrow. For those who missed the televised debates, here are the highlights:
Most of the candidates came across fairly well, seeming knowledgeable in their own issue or issues of interest for city politics. With the exception of Roy Owens (see below), Ken Fowler (joke candidate), or Althea Garrison […]